Director Edgar G. Ulmer executed the low-budget COSSACKS IN EXILE (1939), for Ukrainian-Canadian producer Vasile Avramenko, with a stylish flair; this obscure little operetta contains many pleasant moments. In the Ukraine, 1775, the Zaporogian Cossacks learn that Moscow is sending soldiers to destroy their fort. The Ukrainian villagers appeal to Czarina Catherine, but she insists that they join the Russian army or risk annihilation. Instead, the Cossacks burn their fort and flee on the Danube River to Turkey, where they live in peace, but still yearn for their homeland.
Maria Sokil
as Odarka
L. Biberowich
as Catherine II
F. Braznick
as Old Cossack
Dimitri Creona
as Kobzar
Jean Harasymyk
as Hassan
Nicholas Harlash
as Sultan
V. Kikevitch
as Kalnyshewsky
N. Mandryka
as Gen. Tekely
S. Mostowy
as Prokip
Anna Mushinsky
as Neboha
Helen Orlenco
as Pxana
Michael Shvetz
as Ivan Karas
